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Hello group, after about 140 days on an Athlon XP 2600 with the use of a combined sieving and prp program written by Jens Kruse Andersen, I found a new ...
2 Sep 12, 2007
6:27 am

Christ van Willegen
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Main page ( http://www.opertech.com/primes/k-tuples.html ) The latest updates have been posted, with improvements to more than 2200 widths. Currently there are...
2 Aug 28, 2007
1:02 pm

Dick
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Hello all: I have obtained this result: DivisorSigma[2k,m]/DivisorSigma[k,m] is integer if and only if m is a perfect square DivisorSigma[k,m]=sum[d^k, d...
7 Aug 25, 2007
11:27 pm

Kermit Rose
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No prime p is (p-1)modulo 4, as primes that are(p-1)modulo 2 are [(p-1)/2]modulo4, and if the order of pmodulo2 is less than p-1, then the modulo4 of p is...
2 Aug 18, 2007
6:26 am

Robert
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Hi all, I am now ready to publish Carol/Kynea numbers. How do i go about doing that/ What journal should I submit to/ Is there a special format? Any help...
1 Aug 14, 2007
9:15 pm

Cletus Emmanuel
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10347747270980*3^n+1, n from 1 to 10 all prime Do these prime runs have a name?(base 2 this would be a Cunningham Chain)...
3 Aug 12, 2007
9:32 am

Robert
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Powers of Two Numbers are 1 21 421 8421 168421 32168421 6432168421 1286432168421 ... The conjecture is that 421 is the only Power of Two Prime. The other...
2 Aug 11, 2007
9:05 pm

Peter Kosinar
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Suppose you are trying to approximate sum over large primes p of a(p) where a(p) is some monotonically decreasing to 0 function of p. Instead of writing...
1 Aug 11, 2007
7:34 pm

Adam
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Hi all, I just realixzed that the 40th and largest Carol Prime n=253987, was reported on the prime database on Carol's birthday, May 7, 2007... ... Moody...
1 Aug 9, 2007
7:48 pm

Cletus Emmanuel
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Let p < q be consecutive prime numbers. Does sum(1/(q-p*ln q), p=2..inf, converge exactly to 6?...
3 Aug 9, 2007
9:33 am

Werner D. Sand
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Hello, the k-tuplets page is down since several days. In addition Tony Forbes' e-mail adress @ltkz.demon.co.uk is not working. Does anyone know an actual...
2 Aug 2, 2007
11:09 pm

Jens Kruse Andersen
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I have one rather simple explanation for why I think that the number of Fermat primes is finite. Conjecture: If a Fermat number of the form F(k,m)=...
1 Aug 2, 2007
6:35 pm

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Hi, Group, et. al. I have a rather simple observation that may imply that the number of Fermat primes is finite. Conjecture: If a Fermat number of the form...
3 Aug 1, 2007
10:02 pm

Joseph Moore
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I make the following statement based only on a limited number of calculations. I was unable to find any web references. Has anyone come across anything like...
1 Jul 31, 2007
5:13 pm

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I've programmed the Fermat prime number sieve and tested it out on a few different ranges. If the occasion ever arose to factor all numbers in an interval,...
1 Jul 31, 2007
1:06 pm

Kermit Rose
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2^(2^m) + 1 mod prime 3 cannot divide any number in this series because (2 -1)^2 + 1 = 2 5 cannot divide any number in this series except 5 because (2 -...
2 Jul 29, 2007
1:31 pm

Paul Leyland
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Who can help me calculating up to 10 exact decimal places sum (1/n^(1-1/n) - 1/n) sum (1/p^(1-1/p) - 1/p) sum (ln(n) / n^2) sum (ln(p) / p^2) n=positive...
9 Jul 29, 2007
1:00 am

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We fill the array with it's index up to the length of the table. For example if we wish to use the Fermat prime number sieve to find the primes < 250, we set...
1 Jul 24, 2007
4:34 am

Kermit Rose
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The divergence of sum(1/2^ln n) and sum(1/2^ln p) can easily be proven. How can be proven that sum(1/3^ln n) and sum(1/3^ln p) converge? (IF they do. What are...
3 Jul 22, 2007
9:44 am

Werner D. Sand
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The new version of RMA.NET, has been extensively tested, and is now ready for release. This windows program is by far the fastest prime number software ...
1 Jul 18, 2007
5:23 pm

Shane
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Hello All, I generated the following fractal plot: http://www.isenbek.com based on the first 10,000 primes. I was wondering if anyone has seen this before, and...
1 Jul 18, 2007
2:43 pm

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Let p be a large prime, and g a generator of Z/pZ. Let u<p be non-zero modulo small prime q. From g^u (mod p), is it ever possible to tell anything more about...
1 Jul 18, 2007
1:58 pm

Phil Carmody
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I was searching for an interesting note I've read years ago. Here it is: http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath222.htm Hugo Scolnik [Non-text portions of this...
1 Jul 13, 2007
11:56 am

scolnik
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I´d like to share a little concept for ACCOUSTICAL FACTORIZATION by using the relation between tones and overtones on strings, many guitarplayers might be...
3 Jul 12, 2007
6:40 pm

Johannes Z.
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Is there a list of the known of Ramanujan prime? What is the largest value?...
1 Jul 12, 2007
3:37 pm

John W. Nicholson
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... The density of numbers being nth-powerfree is 1/zeta(n), where zeta is the Riemann Zeta Function. So, for squarefree numbers, we have your probability is...
1 Jul 10, 2007
10:48 am

Jose Ramón Brox
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What is the probability of a number being square free... it seems that the more square free numbers than the non-square free numbers for big numbers. Would be...
1 Jul 10, 2007
9:29 am

Sudarshan Iyengar
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How are the Smarandache folks able to get away with renaming everything "smarandache this" and "smarandache that" when most of the mathematical miscellanea...
2 Jul 9, 2007
5:15 pm

N.L.
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maybe... let Z = 2^(2^(p+1))+1 ; p is prime Z is prime iff [Z (mod (2^p+1))] == 2^q ; for some q for p = 2, 3,..., next??? eg. p=2, 2^8+1 mod 5 == 2^1 and... ...
2 Jul 8, 2007
11:02 pm

Bill Bouris
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An interesting extension of Patrick De Geest's Table is where 10^n+p and p are both prime (the first instance) The table begins: n---------p ============= ...
2 Jul 5, 2007
8:23 pm

Dirk Augustin
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